QUESTION 1 About 600 years after God promised Abraham that his…

Question Answered step-by-step QUESTION 1 About 600 years after God promised Abraham that his… QUESTION 1About 600 years after God promised Abraham that his descendants would possess the land of Canaan, God brought about the dramatic story of the exodus from the land of_____QUESTION 2God selected an Israelite and slowly shaped his life so that he would be able to fulfill God s plans. This man, as a baby, was adopted by the princess and raised in the royal family. As an adult he chose to re-identify with his Israelite heritage. But in this process he attacked and killed a civil employee, and in fright he chose to flee to the land of _____ where he hired on as a shepherd and married the daughter of his boss, a priest.QUESTION 3This Israelite shepherd was called _____QUESTION 4Many years later, while tending his sheep, this man saw a burning_____ and went to look at it.QUESTION 5The voice of _____ came to him and instructed him to go and get the rest of the Israelites and take them back to the promised land of Canaan.QUESTION 6Although he was not eager to accept this mission, he eventually agreed to follow God s will. He went back to the land of his birth, and there he was joined by his older brother named _____. Thus this Israelite man became the greatest prophet of God in the Old Testament.QUESTION 7This prophet then opened negotiations with the Pharaoh in the desire to let the Israelites take a retreat into the wilderness to worship their God. Pharaoh refused. God then assisted His prophet in the negotiations with ten dramatic events, called the __________ (two words, no capitals). The prophet would predict that a troubling event would strike the land; after some time the Pharaoh would ask the prophet to reverse the trouble and promise to let the Israelites depart. The prophet would declare an end to the problem, and then Pharaoh would change his mind and not let the Israelites go.QUESTION 8For the final plague in Egypt God caused the death of a member of the Pharaoh s family, his _____; after which Pharaoh ordered the Israelites to leave the country. The Israelites requested donations from all their neighbors and then left.QUESTION 9But Pharaoh once again changed his mind and sent the army after the Israelites. The Israelites were trapped between the army and the reed sea (also translated Rea Sea). God parted the _____ of the sea.QUESTION 10The Israelites crossed on dry _____QUESTION 11When the Egyptian army followed Israel through the sea, the sea closed up and drowned the army. The Israelites, their prophet, his brother, and his sister named _____ all celebrated this victory over the army.QUESTION 12The prophet then led the Israelites to a mountain site in the wilderness known as Mount _____.QUESTION 13During the journey the people of Israel complained about the lack of food and water in the desert. The prophet turned to God for help, and God provided bread from heaven every morning, which the Israelites called _____. They ate this food for forty years.QUESTION 14God also instructed the prophet to provide _____ for the people in a miraculous way.QUESTION 15It came out of the _____ when he hit it with the same staff that had made the Nile River turn to blood.QUESTION 16Around this time the prophet’s father-in-law, called _____, the father of his wife Zipporah, came to visit, bringing the prophet’s wife and children with him. This father-in-law was a priest of Midian, and he was very impressed by how God had brought out the Israelites from Egypt, and he worshipped the God of Israel. But this father-in-law also provided very good advice to the prophet by teaching him how to delegate responsibility to others to assist in managing the needs of the population.QUESTION 17At this mountain location God manifested Himself and spoke to all the Israelites, giving them the words we know as the __________ (two words, capitalized) on two tablets of stone. The people asked the prophet to serve as a mediator or go-between at that point, and the prophet ascended the mountain to receive more information from God.QUESTION 18When he returned, the prophet led a formal ceremony in which the people of Israel entered into a binding contract with God. This contract is called the __________ (two words, both capitalized).QUESTION 19In this contract the people promised to serve God as their _____, and in return God would take care of them as a loving king cares for his peopleQUESTION 20To symbolize the commitment of their lives, the contract was sealed with the _____ of bulls as a symbol of the commitment of one’s life.QUESTION 21By this contract the Kingdom of _____ was established on earth.QUESTION 22Then the prophet collected donations from the people and directed the construction of a fancy tent to serve as a dwelling for _____, who would stay close to the Israelites and protect them.QUESTION 23In this tent the prophet would have conversations with _____.QUESTION 24Following God’s instructions, the prophet then installed his older brother _____ as the chief priest to lead the Israelites in worshipping God.QUESTION 25But between the sealing of the Covenant in Ex. 24 and the construction of the Tent (also known as the Tabernacle), while Moses was talking to God on the mountain, in Ex. 32 we find the account of the great rebellion. The people gave up on Moses, came to _____, and demanded that he make them images for their own version of religion.QUESTION 26Aaron constructed a statue of gold in the shape of a _____.QUESTION 27He then made an _____ for worship in front of the statue, and then the people came to worship with animal sacrifices and partying.QUESTION 28This party turned into an _____.QUESTION 29God informed Moses that He planned to _____ the Israelites. But Moses convinced God to reconsider or change His mind, and then went down the mountain to the people. Moses destroyed the statue and put the resulting powder into their drinking water, so that they literally had to eat their god.QUESTION 30Then Moses called for anyone still faithful to God to come and assemble with him. Only one tribe of Israelites came: the tribe of the _____. Moses ordered them to fetch their weapons and restore the obedience of God inside the kingdom of Israel. Because of this faithfulness at this crucial time, this tribe was later pulled out of the list of the Twelve Tribes and set aside to serve God as a guild of priestly assistants.QUESTION 31In the Book of Exodus the Israelites came out of the land of bondage to the mountain of God, and they camped there for a year while the new government and religion were organized, including many of the rules provided in the Book of Leviticus. In the Book of Deuteronomy the Israelites arrived at the east bank of the Jordan River, across from the promised land, and they received the last sermons of the prophet. It is the Book of Numbers that provides the story of the forty years of traveling through the Sinai Wilderness. Initially God’s prophet led them to the promised land, but when the twelve scouts reported how powerful the Canaanites were, the people refused to invade. In anger God then declared that (Num 14:22) “not one of the men who saw my _____”QUESTION 32″and the miraculous signs I performed in _____”QUESTION 33″and in the _____ but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times”QUESTION 34″not one of them will ever see the _____ I promised on oath to their forefathers.” Thus God declared the punishment of the Forty Years of Wilderness Wandering. QUESTION 35At the end of the Wilderness Wandering period the Israelites were encamped on the east side of the Jordan River. The Israelites had defeated the local kings Sihon and Og. In desperation the Moabite King Balak decided to hire a famous prophet to put a curse on the Israelites so that they would be destroyed. He selected the prophet _____ son of Beor, and asked him to travel from the Euphrates River to Moab to do this.QUESTION 36The story of this prophet is interesting. In many ways he obeyed God, and he faithfully delivered repeated words of God s blessing upon Israel and prophecies of the great King of Israel to come in the future (the Christ). But he was greatly tempted by the money offered by King Balak, so that God had to warn him that his soul was in danger. After failing to curse Israel, this prophet instructed King Balak that nothing could be done to stop the Israelites as long as God was with them. But if the relationship with God could be broken, then they might be vulnerable. So the prophet advised them to call a religious festival that involved religious sexual intercourse, and all the women were instructed to invite the Israelite men to participate. This plot almost worked, and it brought great woe to Israel, but some Israelites leaders, including the priest Phinehas stemmed the disobedience. When the Israelites defeated the Moabites and the Midianites, what did they do to this foreign prophet that they had captured? (Num. 31). They _____ him.QUESTION 37The sermons of Moses in the Book of Deuteronomy rehearse the story of the Exodus and the contract God made with the people of Israel. In Dt. 28 we read a particular part of this contract. If the people of Israel obey God as their king, then “all these _____ will come upon you” (Dt. 28:2).QUESTION 38But (Dt. 28:15) “if you do not obey the LORD your God all these _____ will come upon you.”QUESTION 39Thus Moses states in Dt. 30:19: “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you ____ and death, blessing and curses . . .”QUESTION 40″Now choose _____, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.” Arts & Humanities Religious Studies REL 1311 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)

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